Re: No os.copy or lfs.copy?

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

Thanks Gary,

I hadn't really thought of that.  I'm copying a "read-only" data file  
to a tmpname before I muck with it so I was thinking in shell  
operations.

If read/write might be slow, then os.execute's fine.  The data might  
be tens or low hundreds of MB.

On 8/04/2008, at 6:10 PM, gary ng wrote:

> what is the problem of read then write other than it
> may be a bit slow ?
>
> --- Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am I right in thinking there's no os.copy or
> > lfs.copy for copying
> > files?  os.execute is the obvious (system dependent)
> > workaround, but I
> > thought I'd check there's not a better way.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Geoff